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Tobias Horvath (@tobyx@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image Aaaaand Berlin today at Bebelplatz, site of the Nazi book burning of 1933. A “tiny” protest of 38.000 people. Never again is now. This is what democracy looks like. #fckafd
on Feb 16
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From February 6th, 2025; “[…], FEMA employees received an order ‘for immediate compliance’ this week that states they must immediately change their vocabulary to comply with the Trump Administration’s preferred terminology on gender and immigration. For example, FEMA employees are no longer...
#depol #organisedaffiliatedfuckers
on Feb 16
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From February 5th, 2025, an article in newspaper NRC about 'sovereign citizens’ within the Dutch police force, as well as within the Dutch armed forces. The former has yet to remove anyone, despite the threat they pose, and the MIVD, the Dutch military intelligence service, refuses to discuss...
#ukpol #dontpaytheguardian #organisedaffiliatedfuckers
on Feb 16
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From December 9th, 2024; "Check First, with the help of Reset Tech, EU DisinfoLab and independent journalists Luiza Vasiliu and Victor Ilie publish the flash research note ‘Ads, Influence, and Democracy: Meta’s Role in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Election’.” "The findings highlight systemic...
on Feb 16
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“Six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand were arrested after more than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house on Thursday. The raid was condemned by the Quakers as ‘an aggressive violation’.” "However, Youth...
on Mon, 2PM
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“As previously rumored, Discord, a popular communications platform, is working with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase to plan an IPO as soon as this year, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. The report cites people familiar with the matter and notes that more advisors may come on board as...
on Mon, 12PM
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 4 images BREAKING: MEOWROPE REARMING
on Mar 15
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Reminder for my fellow Europeans; It’s as bad here as in the United States, and, in some cases, worse. The world's deadliest migrant border is ours. We actually built that wall. We have the large migrant camps. We deport migrants to authoritarian regimes outside of our own borders, and pay...
on Mar 9
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image Have I posted the tire fire GIF to Mastodon, yet? I don't think I have posted the tire fire 🤔
on Mar 9
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image Wasn't the only thing this week, either; "The state department has ordered an immediate pause on most US foreign assistance to South Africa, according to a cable seen by the Guardian, officially implementing a contentious executive order by Donald Trump.” "The order...
on Mar 7
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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The same is true for Tesla, too; a long list of labour violations, quality control issues, rampant racism on the factory floor, promises made for hype that then were not delivered on, or much later, etcetera, etcetera. All this has been known for long enough that anyone who bothered to check...
on Mar 7
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Anyone who tinkers with electronics eventually ends up with a container full of small screws of a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and origins. How old are the oldest in your collection, you reckon? [ ] Less than ten years old [ ] Ten to twenty years old [ ] Twenty to thirty years old [ ]...
on Mar 3
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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This. Drone operations across the Middle-East and Northern Africa tend to be run out of Rammstein, for example, because running them from the US would have too much latency. The US presence in Europe is mostly about projecting its own power, and establishing forward defensive...
on Feb 22
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image For the 1488th post in this thread, I’ll simply remind you of what that number stands for, in white supremacist numerology; https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words Fuck Nazis. Fuck white supremacists. Fuck everyone who...
on Feb 22
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Also, for anyone who feels like they need to respond with some reductionist take about capitalism, shareholders, or what have you; do you really think that, after a month of government by dictator's decree, these choices are in the long-term best interest of Apple's shareholders? That is a...
on Feb 19
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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The thing that bugs me about people refusing to call it 'fascism’ because it does not meet their definition of what fascism looks like is that, by the time it does, you are already too late. Everyone who still uses weasel words to describe what is clearly visible to all who observe needs to...
on Feb 13
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SysAdmin1138 (@sysadmin1138@ngmx.com)
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io From memory, not academic rigor, strikes operate as a solidarity building mechanism. They're rarely one and done, they either enhance or reduce the standing of the striking entity. Which is to say sector-specific strikes leading to a broad general strike is a viable path...
on Feb 11
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From January 29th, 2025; "Donald Trump has signed another executive order aimed at the transgender community on Tuesday, this time prohibiting gender transitions for people under the age of 19.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/trump-executive-order-transgender-transition From...
on Feb 9
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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This also affects the trans men housed in that same prison, of course; "The [trans] man also said staff told him and other trans men they would be losing access to hormone treatments. He had already missed one scheduled appointment, he said. One staffer told them they might also be placed in...
on Feb 9
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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One of the most disappointing things I have heard in local coverage of the USAID cuts so far was the journalist who somehow managed to reduce the vast impact of it to 'funding for a drag show in Colombia’. Like, how much of an ass do you need to be if that is your sole takeaway? Do your fucking...
on Feb 8
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io Also, better sell now than later, if you can afford it. It's only going to be worth less over time.
on Feb 7
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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On January 23rd, 2025, Belgian police arrested a 14-year old boy who was planning an attack on a mosque that very...
on Feb 1
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image From January 22nd, 2025; “Kentucky police are investigating after a series of racist Ku Klux Klan flyers telling immigrants to ‘leave now’ were distributed across the state on inauguration day. The KKK is one of the most infamous white supremacist hate groups in the US. The...
on Feb 1
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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It's worth keeping this in mind for companies like Proton too, by the way, which is also a member of the ‘Coalition for App Fairness’ lobby group. They have more than 75 million users at this point. Beware of them claiming to be an indie fighting against the big guys.
on Feb 1
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image This picture really does so much to describe my current mood. And past moods, because Facebook also managed to surface it as a ‘memory’, many years ago 😂
on Jan 31
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“Documents from a Utah offshoot of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia show that two 2023 leadership meetings of the extremist group were attended by former law enforcement officers, a serving prosecutor and a former elected official. The meetings […] show how deeply intertwined the organization...
on Jan 25
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 3 images Placeholder images, part deux! One especially for that orange convicted felon, eentje in het Nederlands voor al die rotkoppen uit het huidige kabinet, and one in the previous font just for the US elections next week.
on Jan 25
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Joni, like in Mitchell (@mejofi@ngmx.com)
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Does anyone know of a good source for light-weight 'dummy' 3,5" hard drives? Like, the kind you can screw into a hotswap bracket to give it enough structure to hold its shape while there is no actual hard drive in that particular slot? We had simple plastic tray versions of this in the past,...
on Jan 23
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image Maia Kobabe's ‘Self Care Tips From Tumblr' post feels very relevant again, as it does on a regular basis, so here's the link to it, as a refresher; https://redgoldsparks.tumblr.com/post/653088482864021504/self-care-tips-from-tumblr-when-you-feel-like Maia Kobabe is also the...
on Jan 23
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“US President-elect Donald Trump's chosen ‘border czar’ threatened to carry out raids across the country starting on his first full day in office in comments to Fox News on Friday. During the first Trump administration, Tom Homan oversaw a controversial policy that separated migrant parents from...
on Jan 20
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image “Germany's ambassador to the US wrote a cable warning that Donald Trump will undermine democracy. Andreas Michaelis said he expects Trump to rob legislators, law enforcement and the media of independence.” “In the five-page cable report sent to the German Foreign Ministry and...
on Jan 20
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image Meanwhile, here in Europe; "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged the European Union to lift sanctions on Russia, news portal Telex reported on Jan. 17. According to the Hungarian outlet, Orban said it's ‘time to throw sanctions out the window’ and establish a...
on Jan 18
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“A 44-year-old woman from Enschede has become the first person to be convicted for condoning the Holocaust since its inclusion in the Dutch criminal code in October 2024. A judge at a court in Almelo sentenced the woman to 60 hours community service, half of which is conditional. She was found...
on Jan 18
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From January 13th, 2025; "A Russia-linked disinformation campaign has made attempts to influence Poland’s upcoming presidential elections in May, according to a state official. The group behind the operation is likely controlled by the Russian military intelligence service, GRU, which recruits...
on Jan 18
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“When X CEO Linda Yaccarino took the stage as a keynote speaker at CES 2025, she revealed that ’90 percent of the advertisers’ who boycotted X over brand safety concerns since Elon Musk's 2022 Twitter acquisition ‘are back on X’.” Except: "According to Sensor Tower, ’69 out of the top 100...
on Jan 18
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image “US President-elect Donald Trump named controversial movie legends and long-standing supporters Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as special envoys to Hollywood on Thursday in a bid to make the entertainment industry ‘stronger than ever before’.” "But all three...
on Jan 18
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From January 9th, 2025; “[Bastard] Meloni has confirmed she has been invited to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president and ‘will happily go’ if her agenda permits, ending weeks of speculation over whether the Italian prime minister was on the guest list.” Including other far-right...
on Jan 17
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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From January 8th, 2025; "Fox News has launched an investigation into claims that an insider leaked questions to Donald Trump’s team minutes before a pivotal Iowa town hall last January. According to a new book by the Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt, Trump’s aides received text messages...
on Jan 17
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image You can just buy exemptions from tariffs; "With Donald Trump threatening to impose steep tariffs upon his return to office this month, US firms are bracing for impact. But an analysis of Trump’s last presidency identified one way to boost their chances of avoiding the levies:...
on Jan 17
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions, but it’s also raising prices as a result. Previously, Microsoft 365 subscribers had to pay an extra $20 per month to get Copilot inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as part...
on Jan 16
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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I finally finished reading 'The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles', the second book in @older@wandering.shop's 'The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti' series, and it is so very good. Think lesbian detective murder mystery in steampunk-lite space 😍 Also preordered the third instalment, which...
on Jan 15
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Back in October of 2014, I posted a thread to Twitter that contained what I like to think of as my ‘Grand Theory of Why Men Insist The Matrix Has No Sequels’. It has held up remarkably well over the years, and it's about responsibility. Their own responsibility, that is. The first movie is all...
on Jan 11
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image End of an era 😔
on Jan 11
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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OK, fedi folks, time for some shoegazing, no judgment whatsoever, in two polls. First off, how many pairs of new shoes do you buy each year? Boost welcome 🙏🏻 [ ] < 1 [ ] 1 [ ] 2 [ ] 3 or more
on Jan 11
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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One of the wildest facts I have encountered in the past few years, as someone of Northern European descent, is that around 65% of all people worldwide experience some form of lactose intolerance, rising to 90% in parts of Asia. Tolerating dairy is a mutation, not a natural state of affairs, and...
on Jan 8
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Sindarina of the Sour Left 🍋 (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“There was political turbulence in Austria on Saturday night after coalition talks between the country's centrist parties broke down and Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced his resignation. What happens next is unclear.” "The conservative ÖVP and center-left SPÖ had been engaged in negotiations...
on Jan 5
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Sindarina of the Sour Left 🍋 (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“Labour must reverse years of political failure on extremism to stop it fuelling more disorder, violence and terrorism in Britain, leading figures have said. Neil Basu, the former head of counter-terrorism policing, and Dame Sara Khan, previously the government’s counter-extremism tsar,...
on Jan 5
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Sindarina of the Sour Left 🍋 (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image “Musk endorsed the AfD in a lengthy opinion piece published recently in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.” "The party has made tremendous gains in eastern Germany in recent regional votes and has nearly doubled its popularity measured in opinion polls to around 20%, in the...
on Jan 4
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Sindarina of the Sour Left 🍋 (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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“FBI agents say they have foiled a possible attack on a US pro-Israel group apparently timed to take place on the first night of Hanukah. Officers arrested Forrest Kendall Pemberton after he allegedly travelled to the city of Plantation in Florida to scout the local offices of the America...
on Jan 4
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Sindarina of the Sour Left 🍋 (@sindarina@ngmx.com)
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Attached: 1 image “The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling in second place at 20% and has seen prominent support by multibillionaire Elon Musk. The South African-born entrepreneur, 53, is seen as having intervened directly in the election campaign, as well as making provocative...
on Jan 4